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Isaiah 51:2

The New Testament’s use of Isaiah

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Luke 13:10-17 ?

'Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you' invokes Abrahamic descent as ground of restoration, resonant with 'daughter of Abraham.' Low Volume and contested; offered as a possible source for the covenant-daughter language.

Low confidence
Rom 4:1-8 ?

'Abraham, our forefather' (4:1) may echo Isaiah 51:2, 'Look to Abraham your father... for he was but one when I called him,' a text about Abraham as progenitor of a numerous people from a single ancestor — the theme Paul develops in 4:16-18. Faint; thematic only.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Isaiah 51
Isaiah 51:1-2 3Isaiah 51:1 4Isaiah 51:3 2Isaiah 51:6 7Isaiah 51:12 3Isaiah 51:17 10Isaiah 51:22 3